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the. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. the german chancellor see it rang a greeting in portugal where she came to support a stereotype is gripping the country and rage crowds demonstrated in the streets blaming angle of merkel for the financial pain they're going through and it's all to sarah first reports next many questions one question why something that fell of other countries should work in portugal. these measures have been killing is there to give us no future it's only for credit and employment and misery so many people are becoming desperate that it's almost like a visceral reaction a visceral reaction to these measures people of god getting angrier and angrier angela merkel says it's a political may have been bad as a side it's to pull this thing they need to serve to highlight the deepening rift
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in europe. for a test this message loud and clear way to test those standing off against the riot police and the fight that's become very familiar protest gatherings in europe that perhaps you know say familia the poaching girl here until recently have been much more tolerant of the state to start the matches that have been imposed on them but as you can see here portugal's patience is really running out with record levels of unemployment now at this. i'm concerned and the country about to enter its third year of recession is the coming apparent that the country puzzles had hate could be a southern european success story well struggling to survive talk about cuts to jobs we talk about a certain measures what does it mean to be living through that right now in portugal it means i don't see any future for my child we are getting angry because the government don't care. about people put tickles
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miscellany of course these stories of hardship are wrecking ball across the usa in brussels finance ministers are desperately trying to come up with a way to pull greece back from the brink of bankruptcy with athens having just approved yet another round of cuts this is the cause of the speed of the capital the greek political class like the rest of the year book clubs in a sense i think prisoner of its own ideology it's the prisoner of the european article which is this ideology exert such a power over people that they are prepared to do things which find any rational measure obviously counterproductive in order to preserve the european project the euro in particular they are determined to do everything to keep the single currency in tact even to destroy their country and with greece's economic
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straits people are questioning just why portugal must follow the same halted rates say many economists say it's deemed to end in failure. r.t. has been. put if i had thought of the morning moscow time things being with bride to be trees here late business update now what's this news from the u.k. that gas consumers scarce customers think they've been duped that's right regulators have discovered at least one case when prices would just go you're going up and downs have basically signs of market manipulation and happened once could happen again so we're looking at that and my program. and i'm welcome to business out to you with me dimitri medvedev and indeed u.k. regulators have launched an investigation into alleged wholesale gas price manipulation the financial services authority pledged to carefully examine any
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instances of potential market abuse but the story is raising a lot of questions about the fairness of consumer prices and the transfer trustworthiness of industry watchdogs all right let's discuss this in more detail with my colleague another study also she's at the business desk for us right now tasha who was it who actually brought this to the public eye well it's first came to life from this guy called south friedman who used to work for a company responsible for setting the so-called benchmark market prices these prices and then he used for our wholesale contracts and he said he believed this went on on a number of occasions and that's on a more or less of regular basis let's listen to this you tube video where he described what he saw. we call its own kind of trade as a whole post for every day for what we saw in this particular day was that even
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though there was a bid to fifty eight forty which means you can sell gas to fifty eight for two that time and then there was an offer of fifty eight seventy five someone who tried to guess it fifty eight p. which immediately raised red flags because it was outside the best bid and offer at that time and it felt like potential manipulation of oil closing price. that indeed looks like a very weird situation for for traders unknown to market but indeed it puts the u.k. gas industry under the spotlight but isn't that different from the rest of europe could the same be happening in other countries in europe well potentially it could be happening anywhere but the thing about the u.k. industry is that gas prices there are actually pretty high let's look at the numbers what we're seeing is that of romania has the lowest natural gas prices of any country in the e.u. by contrast swedish consumers have to pay almost five times as much and in the u.k. households on average pay an equivalent of about eighty europe per month something
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still similar to what consumers in the states have to pay but in the u.k. gas has nearly doubled over the past seven years as for every one percent increase about forty thousand people slip into what's known as fuel poverty defined as well having to spend about ten percent or more of your monthly income on energy bills and there are about five million people in the u.k. at the moment that fall into that category i mean regulators and watchdogs in the in all of these countries you've mentioned a very important bodies and you're saying that basically turns out the price rigging might have been playing a role in all of this it might have been and that's the thing that's exactly the point consumers to suddenly waking up to the fact that actually wholesale prices might have been rigged and because these wholesale prices they used as the basis for their monthly energy bills they're suddenly losing faith in the entire system and they're suddenly starting to question everything and because this could have
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potentially taken place on a very large scale of course these minute fluctuations could translate into millions of pounds right well there has been talk before about this issue but it's been mostly muted why is everyone suddenly in the u.k. just preoccupied with this. well the timing is very interesting not only is the winter around the corner but also this week the biggest british energy supplier is planning on breezing its prices by about six percent so there is already a lot of tension in the air and of course these so-called big six energy companies as they're known in the u.k. are denying any relations whatsoever with this price manipulation but the very idea that there could be price manipulation to someone's financial benefit in this day and age when energy prices seem to be rising nonstop
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is mind blowing and it's even more wind blowing that it could be taking place in the u.k. one of the world's most developed sophisticated economies absolutely mind blowing and if it does go to court eventually this could be a completely new precedent overhauling the whole function of regulators ideas your market or i thank you very much natasha and it's guy for that. but russia has in other news come one step closer to developing its second subsidy through to europe this is the south stream as opposed to north stream the country has agreed an investment decision on the projects stretch in slovenia so stream is aimed to diversify russia's natural gas supplies to europe and avoiding other transit countries like ukraine pipelines expected to be commissioned by the end of two thousand and fifteen with planned your capacity at sixty three billion cubic meters of gas meanwhile gas problems had and they say miller revealed to r.t.
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the project's time plan for the nearest future. this wednesday we will approve the investment project of the sub seaport of the pipeline and then on thursday we'll make an investment decision on bulgaria stretch and will start the actual construction of the project on the seventh of december all. right let's move over to the markets first of all to united states where trading is still on and flat markets remain weak despite home depot's earnings which topped expectations analysts believe there's little hope for real rally recovery rallies until progress is made on budget talks without them this could trigger more than six hundred billion dollars in automatic tax hikes and spending cuts in january this is called the fiscal cliff that everyone's talking about now european markets take a look at them they have been slightly higher and that's up to greece sold enough treasury bills to ease worries of an imminent default five billion euros worth of for two bills was sold and the euro was gaining at one point on that but right now
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it's come down basically some certainty about greece of course not providing much optimism to investors when it comes to the euro the ruble has also been weak in tuesday's session and lost around half and half a percent against the basket of the euro and the dollar and the russian markets we're also seeing some a bit of a beating even butchering i'd say the r.t.s. down more more than two and a half the cent almost three percent this is preparing to sell and growing concerns over europe and chief of crude oil was moving the my sixty m. k. b.p. finished along with the market the firms the russian and british have ended all existing disputes to clear the way to the company's acquisition oil major ross never see the line number two that it's buying up here in k b p and therefore it's ended better than the markets major is also setting up its own bank i mean while the top lender is burbank lost around three percent on tuesday that was
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a bad. for the heaviest traded stock on the market good news for air carriers or our flying to europe from other continents the e.u.'s decided to free them from paying emissions seeds for at least one more year now earlier the european union decided to oblige all carriers to document their c.e.o. two emissions and purchase permits when they exceeded these allowances now the move was strongly opposed by companies who said this will increase the cost of flights the first payments had been jew in april two thousand and thirteen but this will now be deferred from four intercontinental routes along with any obligations to monitor and ultimately however emission fees will be brought back if the use aviation regulator does not work out a different solution with companies. and wonderful news for sugar beverage lovers who are afraid to get fat there's now a new cola drink that is claimed to make you lose weight actually now the new pepsi
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special is supposed to reduce the absorption of fat in the body from eat and food and help lower cholesterol levels however it's only available in japan at the moment interestingly the country's functional food market is more developed than anywhere else local consumers can find everything from fat fighting chocolate bars to age defying alcoholic cocktails something to look forward to if you're traveling to tokyo all right that's all for me comes back with the news in just a second. the sun rises over what seems like and lost forest but here in new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of light of all storms as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. mockers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the
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forests of the poem or ski region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy longer set up trucks making them hard to reach in an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve were only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to forests. and their chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find fall it tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out
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silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander someone in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that they have twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quite. in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he's overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the government now is a start of that or for more of forest legislation so as soon as the pals and so on
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river grabs a new forest court and according to. every for us that's the guys in waltham in the in the forest to the still the forest courts deal doesn't work just you. no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live afterwards do but it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. but again china is set to name its next top politicians including
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a man expects his exceed the country's currently do jintao the communist party congress has in its final days in beijing are focused on keeping economic growth through several challenges ahead china's will soon grow to a point where even its top economic and political rival the us would have to say could cut a come from my spence the view of economics professor from britain's nothing in university you were supposed to. do to come to him no option but to cooperation i did here not just by you gotta find a way. we're going to have it in. have a more integrated all of it in terms of economic environment but i will grant you mission you'll continue to have some differences in terms of political opinion the problem is the international issues. can only one. is two countries have to cancel each other into some trading which when you call our. soul you know you will be very interested to see that it will come to with equal weight in about
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ten or is sitting here start with china is about the size of the united or even to all the to the east because so you would have a big balance of economy between east and the west but they will continue with the closet ideology of ideologies called differences between the two countries. it's the not so united states of america with almost half the country look at the breakaway we're reporting on but people in places like texas seem so unhappy with the election outcome but they have now filed a petition for independence got the story online check it out. taking space junk to a whole new level this is the first hamburger you have the correct to make it into orbit would tell you how and why let's go for a moment. this
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is our take turkey is considering bringing the death penalty ridgeley abolish capital punishment a decade ago when it started seeking membership of the european union as part of can stoney's from a think tank how milton coalition to stop the war he believes the turnaround of capital punishment leaves prime minister edwin mired in hypocrisy. executing nationalist militants as never put an end to a national movement anywhere in the world the only way to. achieve a rican silly ation is through a political settlement and an accommodation to the demands of the national movement you can't be a democratic state you can't get into the european union if you don't have freedom of the press but if you're waging a war against your own against your neighbor on the one side and against a sizable minority of your. rather than having
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a negotiated settlement then you will then you find yourself in a military emergency where things like. freedom of the press and civil disobedience civil dissent are no longer allowed so it etc quagmire that mr atwan was getting himself into over his meddling in his neighbor's business. more world news no twitter posts have landed more men in jail in bahrain in activism given six months for defaming the king on the social network through other bahrainis really convicted of the same offense the crackdown against political the sense also seen thirty one people stripped of the citizenship in the past week it claims they're campaigning undermined security the big massive reform protests in bahrain for nearly two years it's. a judge released radical muslim cleric abu qatada to really spend seven years in detention without charge while britain wrestles with his human rights obligations tartars wanted in his native jordan on
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terrorism charges but european rules for military guiding people to places where they won't get a fair trial but the deputy prime minister is now vowing to get the cleric kicked out anyway supervising qatar that could cost british taxpayers five million pounds and. floods across central italy played for lives raging waters have struck some of europe's most to storage cities including florence and the lagoon city of venice the victims died in similar but separate accidents where their vehicles were swept away by those torrents heavy rain and unusually high tides cause rivers to swell and burst their banks. this is r.t. live from moscow thanks for being with us i'm kevin though and i'll be back with the latest news in about ten minutes time and bring your headlines again then this is r.t. .
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this was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and had been abandoned in a condition where it had become a source of pollution or the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution and spreading. the more than hundred thousand. troops working with the children see the children to be more likely to be born with birth defects and children in the rest of the country. in the sea as five hundred dollars. unpunished.
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the sun rises over what seems like analyst forest. hundred kilometers north of. as much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system filing down the forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's. not easy laager set up trucks making them hard to reach in an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve we're only sanitary logging of disease trees is
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a lie out according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to forests. and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare them off alexander some morning call has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get
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closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it the government now for more of. the. forest and according to. the guys in the forest is still forest still doesn't work. no one tries to stop them in just five years the forest. will be gone they'll sell it all to china and what will the people who live afterwards do like it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps
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that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. first
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